chief washington correspondent john harwood is in d.c. with the latest. we can only hope today is as interesting as yesterday was, john. >> yeah, maybe a little bit more blow ducktive as well. what we have got john boehner trying to -- facing resistance within his caucus, trying to rally them to a position that -- of political safety as against president obama. so what he has got with plan b is a two-part approach. one has about 200 billion dollars in cuts too avert the sequester, which would hit the pentagon very hard, something republicans don't want. it's loaded up with politically volatile things democrats could never accept, cuts to food stamps, cuts to obama care, that sort of thing. then he has also got a tax cut for everybody under $1 million in income. so, that extends the bush tax cuts but for many more people than the president wants to. he said he is going to veto this approach. this it is a challenge for the speaker to get the votes to pass it because many republicans don't want to go, carl, for any tax increase for anyone, including milliona